One more vote for "Outside the Valley" with "A Week Later" coming in at a close second.
My participation in the PodCast world has been limited at best. I'm really looking forward to seeing what you can teach me about this industry and how best I can use it to simply make my life better.
I agree with what you are saying. It seems you are defining what a blog is, intentionally or not. I took a quick peek at wikipedia and a blog is somewhat defined as being conversational which supports what you are digging into. If a proclaimed blog does not allow comments then to me it is simply a web page and is no different than any other site that has a current "news" section in chronological order.